Professor Michael Tam spearheads a new journal dedicated to advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals

April 4, 2024

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Professor
Michael
Tam,who
leads
the Laboratory
for
Functional
Colloids
&
Sustainable
Nanomaterials joined
the
editorial
team
of
ACS
Publications
in
2015.
In
2022,
ACS
launched
a
strategy
to
increase
the
number
of
journals
that
advance
UN
Sustainable
Development
Goals.

ACS
Sustainable
Resource
Management
is
being
launched
with
a
primary
focus
on
original
research
in
the
fields
of
sustainable
natural
and
waste
resource
utilization.
The
journal
aims
to
create
a
platform
for
stakeholders,
including
researchers
from
academia,
industry,
government
agencies,
and
regulators,
to
engage
in
discourse
regarding
the
promotion
of
sustainability.

Water
Institute
member
Michael
Tam, Professor, Department
of
Chemical
Engineering and
University
Research
Chair.

Tam
believes
chemical
engineers
have
a
huge
role
to
play
in
this
arena.
The
drive
to
advance
UN
Sustainable
Development
Goals
is
prevalent
throughout
the
research
being
conducted
within
the
Department
of
Chemical
Engineering
at
the
University
of
Waterloo.

An
example
of
such
research
is
carried
out
by
new
faculty
member, Professor
Joshua
Pulsipher on optimal
critical-earth
element
recovery
wastewater networks.
His
recent
collaboration
with Professor
Carl
Laird, the US
National
Energy
Technology
Laboratory,
and
industry
partners
has
focused
on
developing a
decision-making
framework
to
explore
creating
lithium
recovery
plants
to
extract
critical
minerals
from
wastewater.

Tam,
a
University
Research
Chair
is
also
engaged
in
developing
sustainable
solutions
by
harnessing
the
power
of
natural
resources
that
satisfy
the
net-zero
economy.
One
application
his
group
is
working
on
is
the
development
of
sustainable
packaging
systems.